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  • Author: Crawford, Lucas
    Summary:

    Sideshow Concessions is the first book from queer performer and scholar Lucas Crawford. A collection populated by the circus-like bodies and experiences of a narrator navigating rural pasts and urban presents, Sideshow Concessions is the unofficial story of someone who is both a bearded lady and the fattest man in the world.

    Contents:
    • I. Fattest Man in the World. Your fat daughter remembers what you said
    • How families mourn when they have money and don't know each other
    • Memorandum for the fellows at the gym
    • Recurring questions from the summer I didn't leave the house
    • Stop all the clocks on pancake Tuesday
    • Eating Chinese in Kingston, Nova Scotia (Population: 5174)
    • My fattest aunt
    • Please don't bury me down in that cold, cold ground
    • One of my thin friends
    • Chairs and stages can't contain me
    • My last meal
    • Failed seances for Rita Macneil (1944-2013)
    • II. Bearded Lady. Long twisted things
    • Introducing the letter ex (1)
    • Scar tissue looks good on Pomquet Beach
    • Airplane lavatory algebra
    • Introducing the letter ex (2)
    • O, adulthood
    • The force required to occupy my shirt is stronger than gravity
    • Introducing the letter ex (3)
    • Monogamy (A lost letter for reading aloud)
    • III. Sword Swallower. Road rules
    • Canadian literature premises
    • Introducing the letter ex (4)
    • I got an A+ on the test because I couldn't stop rereading
    • Informercials
    • Muzzled
    • Depression
    • Letters, in any case
    • Introducing the letter ex (5)
    • The hand unlearns to touch
    • Cruising utopia
    • Dear Mrs. Luberto.
    Genre: Canadian poetry
    Original Publisher: Halifax, Nova Scotia , Invisible Publishing
    Language(s): English
    ISBN:

    9781926743578

    ,

    1926743571

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Abstract

Sideshow Concessions is the first book from queer performer and scholar Lucas Crawford. A collection populated by the circus-like bodies and experiences of a narrator navigating rural pasts and urban presents, Sideshow Concessions is the unofficial story of someone who is both a bearded lady and the fattest man in the world.

Genre
Canadian poetry
Publisher (Source)

Halifax, Nova Scotia

Invisible Publishing

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